Building with MCP and the Claude API

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Anthropic’s Alex Albert (Claude Relations), John Welsh (Engineering, MCP team), and Michael Cohen (Engineering, Claude API team) discuss the origins of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, best practices for getting started with MCP, and how MCP and Claude work together to enable more powerful agentic systems. 00:00 - Introductions 00:30 - What is MCP? 1:30 - The origins of MCP 2:50 - Open sourcing MCP 5:00 - Remote MCP support 6:15: MCP registries 7:40 - Favorite MCPs: Context7 & Playwright 10:40 - Using the Claude API MCP connector 11:50 - Prompt engineering with MCP 14:20 - Best practices for managing context and tools with MCP 18:20 - How John and Michael use MCP servers for project management, home automation, and more 20:00 - Understanding the “emergent” behaviors when Claude and MCP servers work together 22:50 - The future of MCP: growth of the protocol and ecosystem Learn more about MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro Learn more about the Claude Developer Platform: https://www.claude.com/platform/api Learn more about how to write effective tools for AI agents: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents

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Makers residency 4th edition

Your idea can be anything. At our last workshops, people built plant-based nutrition businesses, a way to measure planetary resilience, crochet headwear and a way to connect lonely people living in the same building. An asset manager went on to raise an additional £25M on their fund within nine months. The fourth workshop is a full day at KOKO with Nick Sarafa, learning to build with Claude Code. Bring the thing you keep meaning to start. We’ll bring the pizza.

◆ Fri 13 Nov 2026 ◆ KOKO, London
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